Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

MOVIE MAKERS 285 CloseUDS— What filmers are doing Every summer the Cambridge (Mass.) Cycle and Sports Club devotes a series of Sundays to bicycle tours of historic sites in New England, extending to a radius of a hundred miles or better. This year the cine members of the group, led by Paul A. Fiske, ACL, are combining their efforts to create a record of the Sunday tours on film. The picture is to be made principally for entertainment purposes. But it is believed it will also stimulate interest in the club's future activities and develop keener interest and pride in New England's ancient landmarks. Mrs. Nathan Milstein, ACL, of New York City, wife of the noted violinist, paid us a visit before leaving for Europe a few weeks ago, to talk over plans for filming the trip with her new 8mm. Bell & Howell. Although her husband is a filmer of many years experience, Mrs. Milstein confides that he has charged her with learning the tricks of the trade on her own, instead of being taught the know-how by him. Sounds like good strong competition is in the making. The high cost of living made John H. O'Harra, ACL, of Dayton, Ohio, and his wife Gladys determine to grow their own green groceries. Along with the initial spading, hoeing and seeding, Mr. H. also set to work recording their gardening experiences and progress. Then came The Drought, and he began to wonder if he would have anything to film as evidence of their labors. But there was, and the last two sequences show a lush home garden and the happy fledgling farmers sitting down to a steaming meal of home grown vittles. We saw the re EX-AMATEURS Judith and F. R. Crawley, ACL, of Ottawa, reading good news of Canadian award. suits recently when Mr. O'Harra was attending a store modernization show last month in New York City. Filmed with a Cine-Kodak Magazine Eight-90, the picture is in color and runs about 200 satisfying feet. David A. Englander, who brings you Shot and Sequence on page 292 of this issue, is probably best known to amateur filmers as the co-author (with Arthur L. Gaskill) of the book, Pictorial Continuity — How to Shoot a Movie Story. Besides his duties as an instructor in scenario writing at Brooklyn's New Institute for Film and Television, Mr. Englander is actively engaged in script writing for the U. S. Signal Corps Photographic Center, on Long Island. One of the busiest people we know at the moment is Martin B. Manovill, ACL, of St. Louis, Mo. As first vicepresident of the Amateur Motion Picture Club of St. Louis, he is engaged in drawing up plans for the club's activities next season. In addition, he is motion picture chairman for the PSA convention to be held in St. Louis in October, for which he must arrange a representative showing of amateur films and equipment. We note, too, from a recent letter, that he manages time out for his own filming — which fact probably accounts for his cheerfulness. From the premier prize in amateur movies to the highest honor in Canadian professional educational film production is the capsule history of Judith and F. Radford Crawley, ACL, of Ottawa, Canada. For the Crawleys were, in 1938, winners of the Hiram Percy Maxim Award, then only in its second year. Their film was Vile d'Orleans, a brief 400 feet of 16mm. Kodachrome recording the activities of this tiny FrenchCanadian settlement on the St. Lawrence. Their current picture is The Loons Necklace, hailed as an outstanding nature study in the first annual competition for the Canadian Film Awards. The production is being distributed in Canada by the Canadian Education Association and in the United States and Europe by Encyclopaedia Brittanica Films, Inc., of Wilmette. 111. get'em in MOVIES with G[ Reflector C Photospots So easy to shoot 'em . . . with G-E reflector Photospots. Narrow beam gives extra punch; lights can be back . . . for freer action by subjects and camera! Ample movie coverage. Marvelous for special effects, and for stills. Get a pair and try 'em — in Triangle lighting or at the camera in bracket lights. RSP-2 $1.20 each plus tax GENERAL ELECTRIC